You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.
I don’t want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That’s what was at stake.
It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.
The song ‘Humiliation’ is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.
Trying to make it and get people to respect your band, being a cool band-all of that stuff-I think we’ve arrived at a place where we have kids and everything is in perspective and it doesn’t matter.
Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.
I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I’m trying to write a feeling, not a story. I’m not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.
A person with grace is somebody who’s socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.
I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.
I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.
I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.